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The Device Throttling the World’s Electrified Future | A shortage of transformers is causing delays to power projects everywhere, holding trillion-dollar industries hostage—and that was before tariffs (www.bloomberg.com)

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[–] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 4 points 4 months ago

So this was a thing long before the AI boom.

Some c suite dullard at my old job got dinged for not having proper redundancy for a datacenter at one of the companies they binge-ingested. So the "solution" was to build an offsite hot swap replica at another location that was pretty much at capacity for power delivery (and distribution: they let UPS systems run at 90+ capacity for years because "it's not 100%", only for there to be a mad scramble once that final straw got reached and the failures started). The power company said it was a minimum 6 month lead time for an additional transformer to be installed with no guarantees.

I can believe that it's only gotten worse since then.